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Reopening The X-Files: “Requiem”
Season 7, Episode 22: “Requiem”Original Airdate: May 21, 2000This is how it ends. Not with a voiceover, or with a Grey. Not even with an ending, because yeah, no, no, “Requiem” is not the end of The...
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Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells Sweepstakes!
The reprint from Jane Yolen was a lovely treat, but we're sure you would prefer to get your hands on this whole book... So don't miss out on Queen Victoria's Book of Spells, ten copies right here...
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First Trailer for Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing
Joss Whedon's take on Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing, has just released its first trailer. Featuring Amy Acker, Alexis Denisof, Nathan Fillion and more, this is a Whedon-fan's dream!...
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The Lost (Excerpt)
Take a peek at The Lost, the second book in Vicki Pettersson’s Celestial Blues series, out on March 19 from Harper Collins:Griffin Shaw and his wife were both murdered fifty years ago. Now a minor...
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Star Wars News is Driving Everyone Crazy
Yesterday, news was reported that Carrie Fisher is definitely, totally going to be in Star Wars Episode VII (presumably as Princess Leia.) But then today counter reports came out claiming she was “just...
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Morning Roundup: RoboCop Rides a Unicorn
Sadly, this is not a scene from the new RoboCop reboot movie, but instead, something directly from our dreams. Don’t worry, this unicorn is a Pegasus unicorn, and thus magic and able to sustain the...
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The Folding Knife Reread: Chapter One
Welcome back to the reread of K.J. Parker’s The Folding Knife. Please join in as I go prodding about in the guts of this compact fantasy epic.Previous entries (or entry, as the case may be) can be...
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Quarter Quell Victors Join The Anti-Snow Rebellion In Latest Capitol Portraits
The revolution in Panem is coming up roses! In every piece of Catching Fire promotional material so far, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) has been seen gripping white roses. Now, with the release...
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Skyrim is the Antithesis of Pen and Paper RPGS and That’s a Good Thing
Everything that makes The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim such an amazing game is exactly the same stuff that I dislike in pen-and-paper role-playing games. You can learn a lot from Skyrim about how, well, not...
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Visit Oz Before James Franco Got There
We couldn’t think of recent Sam Raimi Oz reinterpretation Oz the Great and Powerful Starring James Franco as James Franco without thinking fondly of the massive, amazing Oz reread that writer Mari Ness...
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What’s Reading For Part 2: Books Do Furnish a Mind
My post What’s Reading For? developed a lively comment thread in which the majority endorsed my Epicurean view that “Reading is usually the most fun I can have at any given moment.” But there were some...
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Catch Jay Lake Reading Tonight at Powell’s!
Award-winning author Jay Lake will appear at Powell’s at Cedar Hill’s Crossing in Beaverton, OR, at 7 p.m. tonight! Jay will be reading from his new novel, Kalimpura. Recently, writers like Mary...
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Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: Return of the Crimson Guard, Book Three,...
Welcome to the Malazan Re-read of the Fallen! Every post will start off with a summary of events, followed by reaction and commentary by your hosts Bill and Amanda (with Amanda, new to the series,...
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New After Earth Trailer Is All About Father/Son Bonding
With a voice-over very reminiscent of Admiral Pike talking trash about Captain Kirk in the new Star Trek Into Darkness trailer, it seems like Jaden Smith is just too reckless for his own good. Luckily,...
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A Read of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords, Part 21
Welcome back to A Read of Ice and Fire! Please join me as I read and react, for the very first time, to George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire.Today’s entry is Part 21 of A...
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Major Star Trek Into Darkness Spoilers Leaked Online
Trek Movie and Geek Tyrant are both reporting that Brazilian website Judaois has details on 38 minutes of scattered scenes from Star Trek Into Darkness, which was apparently screened in Brazil by...
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Gaming Roundup: SimCity Launches (Sort Of) Amidst Speculated EA Scandal
Electronic Arts’ SimCity launched—kind of—earlier this week, to much initial fanfare. While many bemoaned the game’s use of always-online DRM, anticipation was high for the return of EA’s classic world...
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Unchancy Flowers: How I Discovered Silver John
When Tor released my first Tufa novel, The Hum and the Shiver, back in 2011, many people asked me if I’d been inspired by Manly Wade Wellman’s tales of Silver John. Although I knew of them by...
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The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince Sweepstakes!
We've got ten gorgeous copies of Robin Hobb's The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince, and we want you to have them! We know you loved the excerpt and want to read the rest of the dark legend of...
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Requiem (Excerpt)
Check out Requiem by Ken Scholes, out on June 18:Ken Scholes’s debut novel, Lamentation, was an event in fantasy. It was followed by Canticle and Antiphon. Now comes the fourth book in the series,...
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